Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola have apologised for handing out "creepy" Diet Coke napkins to passengers on board flights. Travellers have been sharing images of the napkins, which feature an array of messages encouraging fliers to flirt with fellow passengers, on Twitter. "Be a little old school. Write down your number and give it to your plane crush. You never know..." reads one napkin. Another says: "Because you're on a plane full of interesting people and hey...… (www.msn.com) Altro...

Ladies and Gentleman welcome aboard Flight 1500. Since today is Valentines Day we are going to play Delta MATCH. You are all cleared to begin flirting.If your seatmate requests you to enter pattern altitude please notify a flight attendant for your complimentary glass of champagne and a rose. Best of luck and may you have a turbulence free flight!

This whole thing is ridiculous. The issue started when a single twitter user known as "duck sauce" complained. Most people viewed the campaign as positive but Delta & Coke deathly afraid of any social media backlash responded by apologizing and removing the offending napkins. There is nothing creepy about the napkins and as most people noted, "If you aren't interested in giving someone your number, don't write it down". It's sad that some companies are so afraid of a few infantile millennials that they cave at the slightest hint of dislike by a single childish person.

If a company wants to encourage this kind of behavior how about having a couple of baskets with a choice of stick on badges at the gate. One is green and is preprinted "I am willing to chat", and has room to write a first name, the other is red, preprinted "Please don't talk to me". As pax are about to board they can choose one, t'other or neither. That way if pax feel like making any sociable comments to others they should only make them to others wearing a green badge, and be wearing a green badge themselves. Of course the cleaning people will have an extra mess from the discarded badges and the peel off backing.

They are called marketing people - they actually get paid to come up with stupidity like this - it is taught at university - the object is brand recognition to enhance sales - negative publicity like this is better most times for sales that good publicity which most people ignore

A lot of this crap is taught through uncredited academic institutions. The degree is commonly useless from these fly by night on line...universities? These are paper mills turning out pointless degrees. The school I attended in Canada is the second oldest academic institution next to the University of William and Mary in the United United States of America. It's amateur hour at the online schools.

Why are people so mas at this? Are you obligated to write your phone number and give it to someone? No. If you receive a phone number, are you obligated to call it? No. Only people who got mad are the libtards thinking this “encourages harassment” as if people needed a napkin to tell them to flirt with someone else. The fact we are even having to discuss this is fucking ridiculous. Next they will probably push for a ban of pen and paper at bars and airplanes so people cannot give their phone numbers. Funny how libtard women think it’s cool to act like prostitutes but receiving a phone number from a romantic man is deemed absurd.

What is 'conversative'? I am puzzled by your comment. I consider myself a social conservative. 10 years ago, nobody would have considered it necessary to apologize to anyone. Today, if you don't bow and scrape to the critics, they tear you a new one on one or more social media platforms. My comment was not demeaning. It was factual!

I don't see any women's names in the replies here. As a man who tries to see things from every point of view, I suspect that many women have had unpleasant experiences with male passengers who think that women find them irresistible. From sexist comments to leering and even groping, none of which is funny or acceptable. There is even one well-known onboard groper who has gone one to become President of the United States.

I consider this idea at Delta to be unbelievably insensitive and in very poor taste.

Apparently you're in the minority here. And not so incidentally, so am I. I've always found my anonymity to be a pleasant experience when flying to and from destinations. I'd not like to see that time turned into The Dating Game.

If you really think (a quantity greater than zero but less than or equal to the total number distributed) of these napkins resulted in unwanted attention that wouldn't have happened anyway, I'm glad you are in the minority.

Better? And while we are being so literal, just how does one fly from a destination, anyway?

(PS. - You suggested the napkins would somehow compromise your anonymity, which by extension would suggest participation was something other than voluntary.... and since the Coca-Cola company lacks that kind of authority, well, I just assumed)

I think Its awkward, but in the same time fun. No wonder this world is falling apart. First there was a court official condemning same sex marriages, and got her ass in jail, now there is all this pushback and complaints about a fucking napkin, get a life, it was just a way for Delta to have a little fun, it was harmless.

Nothing to see here people, just another reason to have absolutely no hope for the future of our children. Some random fuckwad actually thinks people have never appreciated unsolicited phone numbers. Basically saying the only way to receive a phone number is to tell someone you want them to give you their phone number. Absolutely retarded. Shame on Delta for taking these off of flights because a handful of liberal losers cried on Twitter.

Those complaining were mostly of a conservative bent. That does not, though, make them losers. I think the napkins were sorta fun, but would not want to teach our children that we should demean those who don't agree. You apparently do. That's sad.

Actually the ONE person who complained was a childish liberal millennial. In response both liberals and conservatives thought the complaint was ridiculous. Next time try looking up the story before you make false and ridiculous claims. And yes most people (including professed liberals) did demean the twitter user "duck sauce" for his infantile response to a cute ad campaign.

We were on a flight from Atl to Costa Rica with a good male friend. My wife placed her number and a different name on the napkin. Our friend knew the joke but I did not. we talked about meeting this women for a drink and they pranked me all week.. Loved it.. seems everyone gets offended by everything these days.. Lighten up people. Life is much better if you do.